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Joan Jett Is the Sunset Strip Music Festival 2013 Honoree

She don't give a damn 'bout her bad reputation, which is why Joan Jett is the official honoree at the Sunset Strip Music Festival this year, West Coast Sound can exclusively announce. The fest takes place August 1-3 and Linkin Park, the headliner, is the only other announced performer so far. Past ... More >>

It's Official: America Hates Hipsters, Poll Says

See also: The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List. And you thought you were tired of those Echo Park kids in candy-colored sunglasses? It turns out that the rest of America is sick of hipsters too, even as one out of every two U.S. voters ages 18 to 29 actually considers herself to be a hips ... More >>

Nosaj Thing Is Back

But the producer and Low End Theory stalwart is not in the mood to party

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, January 21 Baron von Luxxury, Yellow Alex, Yung Skeeter THE SATELLITE Electro-pop comes in splendiferous shapes and sizes. And Baron von Luxxury brings the wicked-wit version, in which DeBarge, ELO, Hall & Oates and other formerly uncool '80s soul stylists float through the disco in super-s ... More >>

Why EDM Is Thriving While Other Genres Are Sinking

DJs are the new rock stars? Maybe. (Although chefs are already the new rock stars.) Still, the big name DJs do seem to be living pretty large, what with the constant travel to exotic locations, goofily-clad fans, eager women, drugs and parties. Just swap MacBooks for guitars and it doesn't look so d ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: The Complete List

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 20-11

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are so high they'll literally dance to anything. But below we've highlighted 20 top-notch spinners who put real ... More >>

KCRW Masquerade Ball Featuring Z-Trip and Others - 10/27/12

KCRW Masquerade Ball The Legendary Park Plaza 10/27/12 Better Than: Left, Right & Center For a party thrown by a public radio station, things got impressively rowdy at KCRW's fourth annual Masquerade Ball on Saturday night. Thrown at art-deco castle The Legendary Park Plaza, the Ball was a multi ... More >>

Larchmont Development Wars and Women in EDM Have Readers Talking

Kaskade - Staples Center - 7/27/12

See also: *Kaskade Makes History By Headlining the Staples Center *Facebook Censors Kaskade's Body Paint Photo of This Girl Kaskade Staples Center 07-27-12 Better Than... cramming among the sweaty masses of a typical EDM festival tent in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the man behind the podiu ... More >>

EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building

Twenty years after rave culture first entered the American mainstream, the success of a festival like Electric Daisy Carnival begs the question: Can electronic dance music retain its authenticity, warehouse roots and peace, love, unity and respect (PLUR)? EDC, whose organizers claim they sold out t ... More >>

EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

See also Our EDC slideshow: Photos of ravers Update at 2:48 a.m: EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official announcement. More details and older updates at the bottom. Electric Daisy Carnval in Las Vegas tonight was shut down temporarily as a ... More >>

Ask a Teen Raver: I'm 35, Like EDM and College Chicks. Help!

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: Hi, as a parent of a Raver what can you tell me that will help me sleep at night? I've heard stori ... More >>

Coachella 2012: Five Must-See, Under-the-Radar EDM Artists

You're at Coachella. You love EDM. But what do you do if you really don't feel like dancing to bottle service-party staples like Avicii, Kaskade and Swedish House Mafia? Chances are, if you check out the artists listed in small print, you'll find great DJs and (hopefully) smaller crowds in the tents ... More >>

Little Boots - Bardot - 11-21-11

Little Boots Bardot 11-21-11 Better than...studying on a school night. Over two years have passed since Victoria Hesketh, AKA Little Boots, released her debut album Hands. The electro pop work was popular in England, earning her a top 5 position in the UK album charts and winning the BBC's Best S ... More >>

NIGHTRANGER: FACES & PLACES

DJ Q&A: Simian Mobile Disco Says L.A. Club Scene Needs To Get A Grip On 'Twin Evils Of Bottle Service And Photo Blogging' (Indeed)

SMD is headed to MIB in L.A.​The nu-electro revolution. Boy, that came and went fast. Case in point: British act Simian Mobile Disco, which has moved on to that boom-tss dance-floor sound known as ... techno. You'd have to drag us kicking and screaming to see Steve Aoki or Shiny Toy Guns. But ... More >>

Dance Documentary 'The Electro Wars' Nearly Neglects Los Angeles Scene for a NY-Centric View

​ If the frustrating new documentary The Electro Wars gets any kind of notable media attention (it gives major shout-outs to the significance of music blogs, so we're guessing it will), we guarantee "the war" will end with more than a few artist and DJ casualties and no Jedi mind trick will pr ... More >>

What's Method Man's Cheap Wine of Choice? Why Did Tom Waits Want to Hang Out with Kool Keith? Which Rapper Moonlights As Lingerie Designer?: N.A.S.A.'s DJ Squeak E. Clean Tells It All

N.A.S.A. reloaded: Squeak E. Clean (front) and collaborator DJ Zegon ​On this week's print edition of the LA Weekly, Drew Tewksbury interviews DJ Squeak E. Clean, aka Sam Spiegel, aka Spike Jonze's brother, aka the man behind the star-studded N.A.S.A. project. Spiegel's N.A.S.A. concept album ... More >>

Nightranger: Once Bitten, Twice Buy

Once Bitten, Twice Buy: The Cobrasnake's Cobrashop Opens at Hollywood & Highland

Girls with homeless-hag hair and pricey designer bags, boys in fugly (desperate for irony) t-shirts, and cartoon characterish cliques grooving geekily (yet self-consciously) to tunes spun by Shepard Fairey (M.I.A., The Go-Gos and The Beastie Boys). Last Tuesday night's grand opening of The Cobrashop ... More >>

It's a Beautiful World

HARD Haunted Mansion: Closest We've Been to the Third Reich

View more photos from HARD night one and night two here. Anna WebberUrgent rush for the dead alien​Halloween at the HARD Haunted Mansion brought out the big guns for L.A.'s all-age night walkers and candy ravers. The sold-out event was held at the historic Shrine Auditorium, a landmark event ... More >>

Disco Bloodbath: LA's Freakiest, Creepiest, Trashiest Themed Halloween Dance Parties

​The clock is ticking, and even if you don't have a (clever) costume yet, it's time to brave your social fear and figure out what the Hell you're gonna do this Halloween weekend. As far as dance dens go, pretty much everything bubbling this weekend will have a creep factor (more than usual in ... More >>

R.I.P., Adam Goldstein, A.K.A. DJ AM

Tonight's Banana Split Sundaes at Bardot Canceled Following the Death of Co-Host DJ AM

The promoters of the weekly Sunday night party Banana Split Sundaes, which was hosted by the late DJ AM and Dim Mak's Steve Aoki at Bardot in Hollywood, have canceled tonight's installment for obvious reasons. No doubt the coming week and weekend will be filled with AM dance parties, though, in cele ... More >>

Kim Fowley's Lipstick Orgy, Banana Split Sundaes and more

National Record Store Day in LA and at Coachella: Celebrating Brick, Mortar, Mom, Pop

Patrick O'DellFatbeats' DJ Rhettmatic Celebrating record stores as part of the second annual National Record Store Day, which is tomorrow, should be a no-brainer for Southern Californians. After all, the region is the undisputed center of the vinyl industry, with RTI, Rainbo and Erika all pressing ... More >>

Coachella Friday Set Times Leaked? Are These Real?

Greg Gillis, aka Girl Talk. The Coachella message board lit up this morning when someone posted a pretty convincing list of Friday set times, one of the last big secrets the festival reveals. For those of us going, the set times are obviously important because they dictate what we'll be missing, w ... More >>

Thurston and Kim Rather Rip Through MOCA

Plus, Lovers & Strangers at Hear Gallery, Mustache Mondays at La Cita and Dance at Arena

Nightranger: Maggie Barry, Box 8, Shin BBQ, Brian Lichtenberg, and Fashion Accessories by Cobrasnake

ROCK ’N’ WEAR CIRCUS EIGHT’S GREATS

The B-Sides: The Knux Interview

They Blinded Us With Scions: L.A. Riots Among Bands Entering Corporate Marriages

A car company recruits rising stars of the L.A. music scene to help sell autos. Who's buying?

City Gritty

Unfulfilling Sex; sex and the porn star; art Hopping; N.E.R.D. night

Super Tuesday

Ed Banging; Ponytail checks out; rock-star mash-up; Lemmy see that

Behind the Velvet Fence

Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

Here Comes the Sin

The start of a spicy new year

The 10 Best Local Albums Of 2007

10. Sea Wolf-Leaves in the River At times, Leaves In the River reads a little predictably quirky, but Alex Church's pop heart salvages this from being the effort of another accordian-toting, maritime metaphor-using copycat. The sound might not be the most original (I can't wait for Colin Meloy' ... More >>

Death Makes a Holiday

What to do in Los Angeles this week

New Dork City

The Rapture, Foreign Born The Mayan, July 25

The Rapture at the Mayan, 7/25

If you haven’t yet experienced the phenomenon of people walk-dancing, apparently the best place to witness this is at a Rapture show. Here’s how it goes down: guy in awfully tight pants and girl in white one-piece from the ‘80s enter bar area, dancing while they walk.

On the List?

You know how MySpace has that section called "cool new people," and how, at least from the photos, these people always seem anything but cool? Club Promoter Danny B is out to create an internet networking site where all the members really are cool…. and attractive….and successful&hell ... More >>

Snake Man

Save the Lap Dance

Jumbo's best stripper retires

Dance Club Listings

For February 24 - March 2

Oh, You Brut!

In a world of blog hysteria and terminal hipsterism, Art Brut kick ass, take names and get naked. (About time.)

For Whom the Cell Phone Tolls

High ’05 in Clubland

Webs of intrigue, Crackberries, ironica — Nightranger surveys the year in nightlife

Snakebites

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